Improvement in toe-calk for horseshoes



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GEORGE OUSTER, 0F

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Letters .Patent No. 101,831, dated April 12, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOE-CALK FOR HORSESHOES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To u-ll whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, GEORGE GUsTnR, of Monroe, in the county of Monroe and State of Michigan, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Toe-Calks for Horseshoes and I do herebydeclare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

. Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a vertical sect-ion `of my invention.

Figure 2 is a top view ofthe same.

Figure 2 is a front view thereof.

My invention relates to horseshoes, and consists in the construction and novel arrangement of a secure toe-calk, designed to be welded to the front of the shoe, and arranged to take the proper forward set or inclination when thus welded.

The letter A of the drawings designates my toecalk, a curved bar of cast-steel or other suitable metal. Its upper surface e is somewhat beveled forward and downward, and rising,r from it is a central spur or projection, c.

This spur or projection is flattened from front to rear, and while its rear face is flush with the rear wall of the calk, the front face joins the beveled upper surface at about the center, the object of this arrangement being that when the calk is driven into the shoe, its front shall be -lush with the front thereof.

At each side of the wedge or spur near its base are formed notches a a, thus'giving the spur a neck, as it were, and in the welding process the hot iron contracts about this neck, thereby forming a tirm and secure fastening.

If the single wedge does not give the required strength, two or more may be employed.

I do not desire to confine myself to the number of lfastening spurs, nor to the precise form thereof, but

In testimony Athat I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses:

J. R. RAUCH, I. R. GRonMAN.

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